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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON BEU'NKA, OF NEw YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,349, dated April 14, 1896. v

i Application filed .Tuly 6, 1895. Serial No. 555,162. (No model.)

To all whom, 7315 muy concer-n,.-

Be it known that I, ANTON BRUNKA, of New York, in the county and State of New York,

' have invented a new and Improved CuftB'utton, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of cuff-buttons wherein two buttons proper are connected by a link or bar; and it has for its object to provide an improved construction of this link or bar, and such as will permit of more readily connecting and placing the buttons proper and such as will also be capable of easy removal.

To this end the invention consists in 'providing one of the buttons with a peculiarlyconstructed socket or tube receiving a similarly-constructed bar projecting rigidly from the other button, and in the peculiar construction of these parts and their arrangement and connections lies the novelty of my invention, as will be hereinafter explained, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a cuff-button constructed after the manner of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional vien7 Of the same. Fig. 3 is a dissociated view of the several elements, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4. et of Fig. 2.

The cuff-button embodying my invention comprises two buttons proper, a and a', which may be of any construction or form. Soldered or otherwise secured to the button a, and by means Of a base-flange b, is the socket c, the same being Oval shape in form, as best shown in Fig. 4, and provided with an opening d and diagonal or bias outer edge e, the said outer edge being parallel with the plane of the base-flange h. Soldered to the button a', and having also a base-flange f to facilitate this operation, is a short socket g, the same being formed with a diagonal or beveled face h, which is extended at an angle of about forty-five degrees from the inner face of the button d, and which has the bar i arranged therein and secured by means of a rivet k passing through the socket g and through the bar 'L'.

The bar i is constructed of spring metal and two sections may be readily withdrawn.

provided with a slot Z, which extends from one edge of the bar inwardly and thence longitudinally to a point directly inward from the outer extremity thereof and which forms a spring-arm m. projection n thereon,which is adapted to snap into the opening d, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and which has a notch o formed thereinfthe same being designed to receive the finger-nail of the user, or other instrument which may be employed to press the arm m in.

In the use of the device all that will be necessary is to project the bari through one hole of a cuff and the socket o through a sec ond hole and guide the parts so thatthe bar i will pass into the socket, whereupon the arm mwill be compressed and subsequently permitted to return to its normal position, so that the projection n will be fitted into the opening d, as Figs. I and 2 show. The parts will now be connected with all possible security, and, owing to the diagonal position which the buttons a and av have to the socket c and bar z', the inner faces of the buttons will lie snugly against the cuffs and present a very neat appearance. It will also be seen that owing to the elongated or oblon g shape of the socket c the same may project readily through the buttonhole of the cuff.

In disengaging the sections of the device all that will be necessary is to press the arm m inward, so that the projection n thereof will disengage the Opening CZ, whereupon the This pressing inward of the arm m may'be easily effected by ones thumb or finger nail. If, however, this cannot be done, the operation may be very readily performed with the help of a coin or any such instrumentality.

I have described the flanges b and f as soldered to the respective buttons a and a; but it will be obvious that this connection'may be effected by any known means, and in many cases different means will have to be resorted to because of the impossibility of soldering some metals.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination of two button-sections, a tubular socket secured to one button-sec-ly tion,the socket beinglongitudinally elongated* This arm mis formed with a IOO and having an opening therein located at a point between the ends of the socket, the opening extending through the sides of the socket and a solid spring-arm carried by the remaining section, said arm being adapted to t within the socket and having a slot cut therein to form an integral free portion which projects through and beyond the opening in the socket when the arm is received in the socket, said free part being capable of locking the two bntton-seetions and of being received oompletely Within the socket so as to pass in and ont thereof, substantially as described.

2. A cuff-button, the same consisting of two button-sections, a tubular iattened socket having a base-iiange secured to one section and having an opening in one edge and at approximately the middle of the socket, a

ANTON BRUNKA. llfitnesses:

F. XV. HANAFORD, C. SEDGWICK. 

